Google Draws Fire From Congress

bonch writes "Democrat Herb Kohl, the Senate's leading antitrust legislator, has vowed an antitrust probe into Google as one of his top priorities. Others in Congress are criticizing the search giant over several flubs, including scanning personal data over neighborhood WiFi, collecting Social Security information from children in a doodling contest, and sidestepping net neutrality rules through a deal with Verizon. They're also concerned over ties with the administration — Eric Schmidt is a technology adviser to President Obama, Andrew McLaughlin serves as Obama's deputy chief technology officer, and Sonal Shah leads the White House Office of Social Innovation. Google spent $5.2 million last year on federal lobbying, but critics say their increased Washington presence has made more enemies than friends." Reader walterbyrd contributes an article that suggests this is all just a fund-raising ploy.

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Exxxcellent.

[commodore6502]

Tried to post this as C64_love but due to Moderation Bombing, my karma is -1 and I can only post once a day. Grrr.

ANYWAY: Google (and other corporations) need to be investigated at every opportunity, and their licenses revoked (or broken-apart like ATT) if found guilty. The semi-equivalent of a prison sentence.

Re:Exxxcellent.

[C_amiga_fan]

>>>I now see why you've been moderation bombed [because we HATE c64liove and want to see someone put a bullet in his head.]

+1 insightful. The way to deal with people's whose opinions you don't like is to Silence them with censorship, just like Hillary wants to pull FOX News off the air (or maybe that was Pelosi - one of them democrats). Damn free speech. Silence the people whose opinions are "wrongthought", and if they refuse to be silent, lead them off to the Killing Fields.